How to stir your natural Peanut Butter without making a mess
My wife began buying the Adams 100% natural peanut butter way back before “Trans Fats” was a hated phrase among the health-conscious crowd. It’s good for you and I’ve even grown to love the taste, but I hate opening a fresh jar of it. The peanut oil separates from everything and rises to the top over time, so when you take one out of storage, it’s all at the top just waiting for someone to dare dip a knife into it.
There’s never any extra room at the top of the jar, so no matter how carefully you stir, you’ll end up with peanut oil all over outside of the jar - meaning there’ll be less to mix with the actual ‘butter’. So when you get to the bottom of the jar, you’ll end up looking like my pet Labrador did when we decided to give him a spoonful when we were kids. Not to mention that paper towels never seem adequate for sopping up the overflow.
Well, it only took me a decade to finally realize there is a better way. With one simple trick, you can have a virtually spill-free experience preparing a fresh jar of peanut butter for your bread.
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Store the jar upside down.
By doing this, the oil ends up at the *bottom* of the jar, making the process of mixing it all up a mess-free endeavor. Now if only I could find a chocolate bar hard enough to quit breaking in half during the stirring process…
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Hare are some related articles that might interest you:
- Revealing Trans Fats (FDA article)
- Trans Fats 101 (University of Maryland Medical)
- Try a Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Banana sandwich!
Hey, great minds think alike (and fools seldom differ). Adams has been my peanutty goodness brand of choice since Mom made the choice a really, really long time ago.
And I store the jar upside down! The alternative is to slowly stir the oil into the top each time, and revel in the fatty luxury. And then throw out the granite-like dry lump of peanut paste that remains at the bottom when you’ve scooped up all the good stuff…
Same with the organic almond butter and cashew butter I’ve been buying.
Have you seen a recipe for bacon cookies? Check this one out:
http://neverbashfulwithbutter.blogspot.com/2007/12/experiments-in-deliciousness-bacon.html
Wow! I never would have thought to put bacon in a cookie. I’m going to have to give it a try, it actually sounds like it would be good. I like how the author refers to bacon as the “candybar of meats”.